I joined the Army during medical school with the intention of staying in the service for only a few years, but the Army has provided so many opportunities that it's now been more than 16 years since I signed on the dotted line. I am a family physician …

"This was the first study showing that any intervention can actually make your telomeres longer — in a sense, reversing aging at a cellular level," Ornish says. Previous research has shown that the program can reverse heart disease, type 2 diabetes …

In the mid-twentieth century, for example, a boom in phosphate mining transformed the Micronesian island state of Nauru from a land of food shortages and starvation to the world's leader in obesity and type–2 diabetes. In 2005, according to the WHO, 94 …

The discovery, made possible through a combination of cutting-edge stem cell and gene-editing technologies, could lead to ways of countering age-related physiological declines by preventing or reversing damage to heterochromatin. Werner syndrome is a …

Andrew Stewart, the director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City says, "In children and adults with type 1 diabetes, they have lost 99 percent of their beta cells, so they …

Treatment of type 2 diabetes and closely associated conditions such as fatty liver disease has been a great challenge for scientists so far. However, with Danish funding, the researchers from Yale School of Medicine have now developed an agent that can …

It's a message vested interests in the pharmaceutical and medical industries don't like people to hear: type 2 diabetes is 'curable', in terms of reversing all the symptoms completely, says US obesity specialist Dr Sarah Hallberg. She is one of growing …

For 37 years he has been touting the benefits of very low-fat, high-carbohydrate, vegetarian diets for preventing and reversing heart disease. But the research he cites to back up his … The March 2014 study that Ornish cites as finding “a 75 percent …

Though people often think of the benefits from exercise, calorie restriction and weight loss as interchangeable, they may all actually offer distinct and cumulative benefits when it comes to managing Type–2 diabetes risk, says new research. "On the …

On Thursday April 2nd, the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Eastern Caribbean Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists church hosted a Health Professionals Lifestyle Medicine Workshop to target the prevention, arrest and reverse of common risk …

About 90 percent of South Africans with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, a form of the disease that develops later in life and is associated with an unhealthy lifestyle, according to the CDE. Risk factors include being overweight, poor diet, physical …

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to keep glucose levels normal (in type 1, the pancreas stops producing insulin altogether), and if I didn't take action, I would be 36 per cent more likely to die early and could suffer …

Researchers from the Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Sciences at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, report that a novel treatment previously found to reverse type 1 diabetes in mice also works on human beta cells transplanted into mice.

Unfortunately doctors are very busy with not enough time for public health intervention and lifestyle advice,” said Dr Eva. She says the fact you can reverse type two diabetes that has been there for many years is basically a new phenomenon and Pat is …

The company announced the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS) of JANUVIA (sitagliptin), a medicine that helps lower blood sugar levels in adults with type 2 diabetes, achieved its primary endpoint of non-inferiority for …

Dr. Shayesteh said 76 percent of people with Type 2 diabetes get it from non-genetic factors, such as poor diet and lack of exercise. He said 24 percent of people are predisposed to the disease through their genes but new research shows even genetic …